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Worse? It’s UND so of course it’s very believable, but still. This is crazy.

I wish, but I’m not counting on it.

So much worse than I expected. Were never in this game. Embarrassing.

Let the kids have some fun!

Puckpreps would be what you’re looking for. Rank by birth year. Almost all the information is behind a paywall, but you can search and find everyone’s rankings.

I commented on this a few weeks ago, how it seemed like everyone had cool looking edits / artwork for their commitments except for the UND guys. I had incorrectly assumed the schools were doing them. Simpson and others used the IG account charmdsgn. It's on the player, not the school. Just an Fyi, as I had assumed wrong on that topic.

I wouldn't be too worried about NIL and situations like Eiserman. If a player has good academic standing, between the Alston Award and FCOA, a player would receive around 10K a year from UND. How many players are getting the "Eiserman" treatment? You would think it would be a very select group every year. How many of those players would have gone East anyway? UND has positioned itself just fine in the college landscape between the Alston and FCOA.

The UND big game status quo says that line is really good. I envision a one score SDSU lead late in the 3rd quarter. SDSU outscores UND by 10-14 points in the 4th. Puts you right on. That's why you play the game, a decade's worth of big game frustration could be alleviated on Saturday. Here's to history not repeating itself!

Very solid journalism. What a headache for NDSU.

If it happens again (missed XP) in the first half, I would prefer UND to stop chasing points. Line up the next time and try another XP. I think they are now 0-4 on 2 pt conversions.

I'm really interested to see how it ends up with Lindberg and Mooney. The conventional wisdom would lead you to believe at the beginning of the process that Lindberg would end up at UND, Mooney at Minnesota. We're far enough into the process where if that's going to be the case, why wouldn't have it happened already? Seems to be a little more up in the air.

Nothing has changed for me and what I believe the likelihood of the outcome will be. What has changed a week later is I'm absolutely fired up for this opportunity for the program. I truly believe a win on Saturday would change the perception of this program "nationally". Credit to Bubba for getting this program to the point where it can break through. The Boise State loss felt differently. I do get a sense that more and more are getting increasingly frustrated with the status quo. Let's see a complete game, fundamentally sound, somebody be a hero. Make a play that will change this program. Excited for Saturday.

Enrollment at UND rises again; systemwide enrollment is up, too - Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, East Grand Forks news, weather & sports (inforum.com)

Thinking logically, if we do not see a story in the Forum on enrollment numbers, it's because NDSU does not want the article written. You're probably right on your line of thinking.

Before the season, the feeling I've gotten. 1st Round: Boisvert 1st / 2nd Round: Emery / Heil 2nd / 3rd Round: Swanson / Zellers Laurila (?) Would it be unrealistic for UND to have 5 go in the Top 75? What a fun year this will be to follow recruits.

For UND / NDSU, State funding really is the life blood of the University. It would make sense to me that things could snowball (harder to increase enrollment with less funding and vise versa). It really is high stakes every year, you just cannot start a downward spiral. Who knows, but I would almost prefer the Forum not to cover. For the simple reason is out of sight out of mind for alumns that might start putting pressure on the administration of NDSU.

Not being able to verbally commit until August 1st of your Junior year.

Disclaimer. Players committing and not making it to campus will still happen. Just how it is. That being said, since August 1st 2021, we are living in different times. It won't happen as often now as it did prior to that point.

Actually, kind of a fun idea. My first thought though would be from a $ standpoint, would there actually be much of a difference between the Top / Bottom league? From a $ standpoint, OSU / Wazzu bring nothing of value to the tv contract conversation. Fun thought though. We'd maybe be talking about $6 million for the Top league and $2 million for the bottom league.

Let me know if I'm missing something. Per Heisenberg's website. USHL (Forwards) Croal (Muskegon) - '03: Littler (Cedar Rapids) - '04: Panzer (Sioux Falls) - '04: Slipec (Chicago) - '05: Klee (Muskegon) - '05: Swanson (Fargo) - '06: Boisvert (Muskegon) - '06: O'Neill (NTDP U17) - '07: USHL (Defenseman) Jubenvill (Dubuque) - '03: Strathmann (Youngstown) - '05: McInnis (Waterloo) - '06: Emery (NTDP U18) - '06: Laurila (NTDP U18) - '06: USHL (Goalies) Heil (Sioux Falls) - '06: Other Ausmus - BCHL - '04: Pilgrim - MN HS - '06: Zellers - SSM - '06: Schultz - MN HS - '06:

Starting with the Boisvert commitment, has there been a hotter stretch for this program in the past 17 years (post Oshie / Toews)? This has been lights out. Of course, I don't think the best player of the past 17 years is in the group, but I don't think the overall "ranking" has been higher during that stretch.

I like the analogy. Figured as much, not sure why that threw me for a loop. Assumed that's always how it's been. Anyways, I hope they continue to have that mindset.

Reason?

Expect something today?